You can use Microsoft Query in Excel to retrieve data from an Excel Workbook as well as External Data Sources using SQL SELECT Statements. Excel Queries created this way can be refreshed and rerun making them a comfortable and efficient tool in Excel. Microsoft Query allows you use SQL directly in Microsoft Excel, treating Sheets […]
Excel is most appreciated for it’s ease of use as a Data Analysis Tool. I mean to explore the basics, as well as the more advanced Data Analysis Excel Tools. Be sure to read through the Other Tools section below for other honorable mentions. The DATA ribbon tab As some of you already have noticed […]
VLOOKUP vs INDEX MATCH vs SQL vs VBA – today you are in for the ultimate Excel Showdown. The VLOOKUP Excel function is one of the most popular functions, around which there has always been much debate. You will most definitely find an article about this function on almost every Excel blog site out there […]
Programming is a skill often associated only with Developers and not so much with analysts or data scientists. Why learn to code when you have tools such as Excel with it’s PivotTables, filtering and formulas. On the other hand, when thinking about analytic tools it seems like Tableu, ClickView, SAS or IBM SPSS is the […]
Many times I was irritated of the lack of some Excel functionality (or just I don’t know there is) to easily transform data w/o using pivot tables. SQL in VBA was the only thing that was missing for me. Distinct, grouping rows of Excel data, running multiple selects etc. Some time agon when I had […]